Rachel Schurman

Biographical Information
"Prof. Schurman’s most recent book, Fighting for the Future of Food: Activists Vs. Agribusiness in the Struggle Over Biotechnology, analyzes social resistance to agricultural biotechnology and how it has shaped the development and deployment of genetically modified organisms around the world. The book explores the significance of industry structures, and activist and industry lifeworlds for the contemporary struggle over biotechnology." CV

Selected Publications

 * Fighting for the Future of FoodSchurman, Rachel and William A. Munro. 2010. Fighting for the Future of Food: Activists Vs. Agribusiness in the Struggle Over Biotechnology. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press.
 * "Targeting Capital: A Cultural Economy Approach to Understanding the Efficacy of Two Anti-Genetic Engineering Movements," with William A. Munro. 2009. American Journal of Sociology 115(1):155–202.
 * "Chain (Re)actions: Comparing Activist Mobilization Against Biotechnology in Britain and the U.S," with William A. Munro. 2009. Pp. 207-230 in Frontiers in Commodity Chains Research, edited by J. Bair. Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press.

Select Grants
Program, “Contextualizing Markets: Institutions, Natural Resource Characteristics, and Economic Organizations,” Co‐Principal Investigator (with Richard B. Norgaard and G. Rochlin.
 * 1995 - John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, World Environment and Resources